[Assam] Karbi Anglong

Tue Oct 18 22:18:04 EDT 2005

Mikeda,

I do not dispute your hypothesis that Assam could
solve the problem of potassium, liquid energy and
energy. I have not done enough analysis to comment
either way.

What I do dispute is that a sovereign Assam will not
have access to Indian markets. That does not sound
logical since a state seized from India will be felt
inimical to it. Assam will never have any leverage
over the directions India takes in building out these
networks.

In addition all those opportunities you talk about,
there are others - big ideas all - that can impact
both India overall and our region economically. Such
opportunities did not make sense in an earlier
generation of India where the leadership clearly
lacked vision and the public did not demand it. The
world in India today is different. People want
prosperity and are pretty impatient about it. Many
politicians have realized it and work towards getting
some work done. 

It is that time in India where the watchword is hope
and progress and by any account humongous economic
progress. It is into that India that the opportunities
of Assam will feed into. This requires an Assam that
is indelibly linked to India - not de-linked.

Actually the way I see it - India (and Bangladesh and
Burma and USA and Thailand and USA and Europe and
whatever else is there) will get peace in our region
at any cost. If not for the love of Assam, this peace
will come because there is way too much money to be
made.

For 40 years Assam was in the periphery - being a link
between worlds would bring the North East to somewhat
of an economic center. India will have an impetus to
make the NE that economic center over let's say
Bangladesh. Take a look at the map of the region. A
sovereign Assam would be irrelevant - India can easily
route the routes through Bangaldesh.

The real question is:

Should Assam rather be sovereign and not take
advantage of the opportunities you and I are talking
about? Or should we be a part of India and take
advantage of those? Would we rather have the jungle
reclaim us or move forward with a singular focus on
the prosperity of the region.

Economically speaking I haven't seen a business case
built out for the former. 

It is in this context that we had a discussion some
time back as to what the objective for discussions
between ULFA and GOI should be - beyond the singular
word of sovereignity. 

People of NE benefit from having gotten as an outcome
of a negotiated settlement a humongous economic bonus
that the neglect of GOI and the depradations of the
militants have brought us. GOI will bite because
however huge an economic bonus will be far smaller
than the economic benefits that will accrue to both
Assam and India. 

--- mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:

---------------------------------

The Mother of Reasons of all human migration problems:
Bihari-Adibasi(maybe Jharkhand
origin),Karbi,Dimasa,Nagas(grabbing lower lands with
Delhi/CRP looking the other way)--- depletion of
Potassium from the soil.

I wrote in the net that only Sovereign Assam can solve
India's food /unrest  problem by supplying  Potassium,
Phosphorus, PLUS half of India's liquid energy needs
--plus about half Electric energy needs.

{No Sovereignty for Assam--  no Hope of " Great India"
EVER.} 

Promise I won't repeat this "Asinine" remark.

mm 

mm

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From:  SP <saurav at sas.upenn.edu>
To:  assam at assamnet.org
Subject:  [Assam] Karbi Anglong
Date:  Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:55:33 -0400
>
>Rajib Das wrote on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:20:04 -0700
>
>+  I wonder what is the position of the Assam
separatists
>+  on this pernicious war between the two groups -
Karbis
>+  and Dimasas.
>+
>+  Going by the total silence on this - I assume
either
>+  the separatists are not interested in that
conflict.
>+
>+  I am sure there would be some that would put the
blame
>+  on GOI - the Great Satan. But then it would be too
>+  simplistic, wouldn't it?
>
>the issue is land.
>
>this is not the first time that there has been a
killing.
>some time ago upds killed some biharis.
>
>wait, wait---biharis in karbi anglong?!
>
>you would be surprised, but there are a lot of
biharis
>in karbi anglong.  the biharis are those who have
been
>displaced from bihar due to---you guessed it---land
>alienation.  the land alienation in bihar gave rise
>to and sustained the maoist communist center kinds
>and the opposing ranbir sena kinds, leading to
>occasional massacres there.  the land alienation
problem
>in bihar has now been exported to the karbi hills.
>
>this problem now will touch all those in karbi and
other
>areas.  it will pit one tribe against the other.  it
will
>pit tribals against the illegal immigrants (as it did
at nellie
>some decades ago).  and it will pit tribals against
biharis,
>bengalis and what have you.  and the biharis and
bengalis
>will retaliate, as the biharis did following the upds
attack.
>
>if you are trying to take a few cheap shots at
militancy this
>time, please don't.  well, for one, we don't know who
did this
>particular massacre. (most probably we will never
know---do
>we know who did nellie, so many years ago, or dimapur
railway
>station last year?).  they were in black fatigues it
is said,
>but surprisingly they did not use ak-47's.  they used
the village
>dao.  they hacked the passengers and threw them into
the
>fire.  in a way those at nellie used daos, bows and
arrows.
>this was not an ordinary political killing by
insurgent
>groups.  this was tribal warfare.
>
>
>+  What is the solution to this and to a million
other
>+  mutinies that often are against each other and not
a
>+  part of the one great mutiny.
>
>the solution is land reforms, to begin with. 
followed
>by other measures to protect and integrate the
tribals.
>this is the bare minimum.
>
>but this will never be done.  was it done in bihar?
>(it was done in bengal, by the cpim.  if they had't
>done so, those killed by the upds would have been
>bengalis, not biharis).  most probably, the problem
>will fester, as it has done for so many years in the
>karbi hills, with an occasional massacre here and
there.
>
>the problem of land is not just something which has
been
>imported from bihar and which will impact only the
tribals.
>you might have come across news of at least two huge
rallies
>in assam in the last few months by people
(non-tribals
>mostly) demanding government pattas for their lands
and
>which turned violent.  this is another powder keg we
are
>sitting on.
>
>xourov
>
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